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Photo of the Day
September 16, 2001

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Photo: Dodgers Kiss

Dodgers Kiss, California, 1979

Photograph by Jodi Cobb

"Smacking a clean single on the head of coach Monty Basgall, Los Angeles catcher Steve Yeager clowns before a game at Dodger Stadium."

—From "Los Angeles: City in Search of Itself," January 1979, National Geographic magazine

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